UNUSUAL ANALYSIS ON THE REAL AND UNKNOWN FACTORS AND REASONS FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE GENERAL ELECTION, 2018 – PART III.
8. FINAS AND HOW IT ESCAPED FROM BEING ANOTHER SCANDAL OR
CONTROVERSY OF CONCERN FOR THE THEN OPPOSITION.
Finas could have helped Umno and
BN government, if this agency had
been used properly by KKMM If the
ministers and officials of the
ministry and agency knew how to
develop it properly. In the end its
failure and the failure of the
ministers benefited Pakatan.
The
National Film Development Corporation of Malaysia
Finas for Filem Nasional, was
fomed under the Act of Parliament in 1981,
by the then Deputy Prime
Minister, Datuk Seri Dr
(later Tun).
I was at Columbia
University in New York City
masters degree in film directing when I heard of it. I
wrote to him about it and received a reply in the form of a letter that he
personally signed.
Unfortunately,
he did not seek views and proposals from me that
could be incorporated into the
Act. It was approved by Members of
Parliament, all of who were not
qualified in film.
So
basically the Act has a lot of flaws in it, so no wonder even
with Finas and with it having
been around since 1981 or for almost thirty
seven years, the film industry is
still in the doldrums.
I
remember how its first director-general, Ismail Zain, who was
formerly director of Balai
Senilukis Negara (BLSN) told me that ‘Finas
was facing teething problems’.
In
fact, even today, ‘Finas is still facing teething problems’.
The
reason being that the Finas Act of 1981, was flawed to the
teeth, and for that reason, and
with no-one in the organization or
government agency who is qualified
in film, the agency could not develop
the film industry whose state
today is no different
than it was before Finas was
formed.
9. FINAS IS THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS THIS YEAR AND IT HAS BEEN
ALLOCATED RM1 BILLION OR MORE; BUT WHAT GOOD HAS IT GIVEN TO THE COUNTRY AND
INDUSTRY?
…AND THE 13 MAY, 1969 INCIDENT HAPPENED TWO
YEARS
AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF TE OLD
MALAYAN CINEMA THEN
BASED IN SINGAPORE
YET NO-ONE IN UMNO AND BN AND
THEIR STRATEGISTS
OR THINK-TANKERS KNEW HOW TO USE
IT PROPERLY TO
DEVELOP THE NEW MALAYSIAN CINEMA,
ASEAN SINEMA
NUSANTARA AND THE NEW ISLAMIC
CINEMA.
And
what does the 13 May, 1969 Incident or Tragedy got to do
with GE14 and its results that
caused Pakatan to win big to form the
present government? Plenty.
Unfortunately,
none of the experts in history, psychology and
political scientists and seasoned
politicians and others who frequented the
ceramahs as their only places of
political expressions, would ever know, or
they would have mentioned it even
in general terms. They just can’t!
The
fact is Umno and BN did not know what to do with Finas, to
greatly benefit from it, and that
they did not know how the 13 May, 1969
incident had happened barely two
years after the collapse of the Old
Malayan Cinema then based in Singapore
If
they had known about it, then surely, they would have enlisted
or got better qualified and
trained persons to manage Finas, instead of
letting it to become yet one of
the reasons for their own failures and
downfall that started years
before GE14 that they didn’t realize even now.
And
with the RM1 billion that had been allocated to Finas, it does
not even managed to introduce,
create and develop a new philosophy that
can be used to develop the New
Malaysian Cinema and the New Islamic
Cinema, to cause greater
Malaysian Unity, or Melayu Unity or Asean Unity and mostly World Muslim Unity.
Again, I am not going to dwell on
what possible connection the Old
Malayan Cinema had with the 13
May, 1969 Incident and how the New
Malaysian Cinema and the New
Islamic Cinema could be developed so
easily, using my training
studying film at Columbia
University
10. MAHATHIR FACTOR…AND LATER DAY AND LAST-MINUTE RENEGADES AND
INGRATES OF UMNO AND BN.
This is both a misnomer and myth, and the Mahathir
Mystique has its magical moments and instances that managed to endear himself
to many Malaysians including those who had received the brunt of his brute ways
to uphold the sanctity of his earlier government, he led for twenty-two years,
many of which I and many Malaysians support, however nasty they were.
No doubt,
Mahathir was such a benevolent person and leader; and many could attest to
that, for their good fortune.
Some will
no doubt continue to benefit from his charity as Prime Minister for the second
time, Number Seven of Malaysia.
No doubt,
he and those who had held strong positions in Umno and BN had become renegades
and turned coat to go to the other side that of the opposition, charging how
Umno and BN had failed. Their failure were as much as Umno’s and BN’s as much
as those renegades’ own.
They were
also part of the problem with Umno and BN who had directly caused them to fail
in its later years, thus forcing Mahathir and some others to become vocal and
vociferous in wanting to see their collapse; who did not have solutions and on
the other hand added more problems to the party and coalition.
11. DAP, PKR, HAVE STOPPED FROM BEING THE PARTIES, AS WE KNEW IT…
Not many have realized this; but the DAP and PKR
opposition parties that we knew it had all died in the aftermath of GE14. And
the voters unknowingly, especially those who are their staunch supporters had
ensured that this happened, even when they did not mean to.
The few of
their leaders who were most vociferous in ceramahs and other public rallies and
protests, have all been tamed, now that they have responsibilities in
government where they now hold senior posts.
These
people had been harping on many issues, including those mentioned above, and
others, surrounding their own selves, and going all over the country screaming
themselves coarse, and prancing all over the stage, are now mute.
Did their
voters envisage the time when this could happen? They never did.
So
essentially DAP and PKR and also PPBM have become the Neo-Barisan Nasional or
more exactly the Pseudo-BN, while the Old Umno and Old BN have not yet morphed
to become the Neo-DAP and PKR yet.
Although
in the social media some of the former members of the cabinet and parliament
and state assemblies are starting to sound like them, although they are not
using coarse words to condemn or criticize of belittle their opposition and
those who are now in the government.
And their
only source of strength lies sorely on how long and how many voters they can
get, and not in the size of their party members, who could very well turn
against them as did the many Umno and the BN coalition parties whose members
had voted opposition in the last two or three general elections.
Comments